Over the years, this blog has been about many different things related to software development with Microsoft technologies. Since my current role focuses on Dynamics CRM Online, that's what it's primarily about right now.

I just published a Channel 9 interview with Josh Wall and Josh Blake from InfoStrat about their Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Surface controls that make integrating Virtual Earth 3D a breeze. Check it out: http://tinyurl.com/Ch9InfoStratVE “Virtual Earth 3D has many applications, but until recently has only been practical on the web with a JavaScript…

Interested in learning how to build Virtual Earth solutions and lowering the amount of custom code you need to write? Have a look at the upcoming webcast Jerry just blogged about: Microsoft Virtual Earth May 2009 Webcast: Virtual Earth & MapDotNet for Economic Development

Due to popular demand, InfoStrat just published an intermediate fix to get their InfoStrat.VE control working on top of the latest Virtual Earth 3D release. You will notice that they just made a changeset available. What they made available is not fully tested. Once it is, they will publish a new release in the Downloads…

I’ve been waiting for this day to happen for a LONG TIME. I’ve been working with WPF, Virtual Earth, and Surface for quite a while now. If you’ve followed my blog, you’ve seen some hacked up samples showing various ways of getting Virtual Earth integrated into a WPF application. I’ve been working with a number…

I’ve been working with a number of partners lately on building Microsoft Surface apps. Infostrat is one of them. They have done some of the best Virtual Earth integration work I have seen so far. Have a look at this video that highlights their work: Want to learn what Surface development is all about? Check…

If you are building Virtual Earth solutions with the JavaScript control, then you absolutely have to download this toolkit. Chris Pietschmann just announced the first official release. Here’s how he describes the toolkit: “The Virtual Earth Toolkit is a set of JavaScript-based Controls/Tools that Extend Virtual Earth with functionality that is commonly implemented, but hasn’t…

Thanks to the quick effort from Chris Pietschmann, I am happy to announce that we have an updated version of the Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper that is in sync with the update Virtual Earth Map Control 6.2. You can learn more about what’s new in 6.2 at http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2008/09/24/announcing-the-virtual-earth-web-service-and-virtual-earth-map-control-6-2.aspx. UPDATE: I wanted to also mention…

I’ve been chatting with Vish over email. He made me aware his approach to getting SQL 2008 & Virtual Earth to play well together using GeoJSON. I actually didn’t know about GeoJSON. Thanks Vish! Check out his post explaining the approach: http://viswaug.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/sql-server-2008-virtualearth-made-easier-and-building-a-rest-api/ Technorati Tags: .net framework,sql server 2008,virtual earth,wcf